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- NYTimes.com to Be Exclusive Host of Freakonomics Blog
- NEW YORK -- NYTimes.com today announced that it is now the exclusive host of the popular Freakonomics blog (www.nytimes.com/freakonomics), bringing best-selling Freakonomics authors Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt to the online Opinion section of The Times. Melissa Lafsky, previously of The Huffington Post, is the blog's newly appointed...
- Research articles 2007-08-08
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- March Madness Lesson: Lose a Little Now, Win More Later
- The Find: Data from NCAA basketball matches shows that teams losing by a little at halftime are more likely to win the game than teams that are up a little, proving what your grandmother already knew: a little adversity keeps you hungry. The Source: A post by...
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- Competitive Research- Freakonomics Style
- Yesterday the blog Freakonomics.com, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner authors of the wildly popular book of the same name, moved to a new home at the New York Times. Unless you've been living in a cardboard box in Siberia the last few years, you know that the...
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- Happiness Leads To Productivity? Not So, Says Psychologist
- You can always count on the folks over at the Freakonomics blog to shake up the conventional thinking, and today they've done it again. Everyone knows that if employees are happy they'll also be productive, right? Hence all the corporate efforts to improve morale. But new research suggests the truth...
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- Why We'll All Benefit from Meltdown '08
- The Find: What good could come from the carnage on Wall Street? A more productive spreading of brain power amongst a variety of industries argues one prominent economist. The Source: Freakonomics co-author Stephen Dubner writing on the NYT Freakonomics blog . The Takeaway: With...
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- How Do You Know When You're in a Depression?
- The Find: Hopefully the discussion is entirely academic, but when does a recession become a depression? A blog offers some possible indicators, while one prominent economist says that if you want to know what a depression looks like, look around â€" we're in one now. The Source:...
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
- The Lesson of the Angry iPhone Users
- Early adopters of the iPhone were outraged when Apple announced last week that it was lowering the cost of the device by $200. So angry, in fact, that Apple offered iPhone users a $100 coupon for Apple products. Apple's pricing decision makes good economic sense -- start a new product...
- Blog posts 2007-09-10
- Germany New Front in the Fight Over Copyright
- Last Friday Germany passed a copyright law which bans consumers from copying DVDs and music, even for personal use, thereby criminalizing a huge swath of the computer literate population. We'll see how enforcement goes. In the meantime, Britain's Guardian Unlimited ran a thought provoking column arguing against just these sorts...
- Blog posts 2007-09-21
- Perfectionists Despair: Digital World "Always in Beta"
- Today we mentioned that Craigslist CEO, Jim Buckmaster, will be answering questions on the always engaging Freakonomics blog. One of the principles of his management philosophy: Put speed over perfection: “Get something out there. Do it, even if it isn’t perfect.†Buckmaster is...
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
- BNET1 Hat Tip: Q&A with the Authors of Yes!
- Judging by the response to our two posts on Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive, there' s a lot of interest out there in learning more about scientifically proven methods to get others to do what you want. So for those readers looking for more on the topic,...
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- How to Handle a Sick CEO
- The Find: Executives facing a health crisis may have more pressing matters for their attention than the perfect strategy for announcing the diagnosis, but two experts warn there is a right way -- and a wrong way -- for a company to handle a sick CEO. The...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Surfing the Net at Work Boosts Productivity, Study Says
- The Find: Think employees who surf the web during work hours are slackers? Not at all, claims new research; they're actually about nine percent more productive than those that don't. The Source: A study out of the University of Melbourne, via the NY Times' Freakonomics blog. ...
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- Market Volatility Falls to an Eight Month Low
- Mark J. Perry submits: From Ian Ayres at the Freakonomics Blog on December 24, 2008: One of the most important but underreported financial indicators is the CBOE’s Volatility Index (^VIX), which measures the market’s expectation of future volatility in stock prices. (The CBOE has written...
- External links 2009-05-06
- Get Your Boss to Let You Ditch the Tie
- If you're a twenty-something who feels a little strangled and strange in a tie, there may be an innovative way to convince your boss it's a good idea to let you dress more casually, at least when the hot weather rolls around again. How? Appeal to his desire to cut...
- Blog posts 2009-09-07
- How Will the Recession Affect Young Adults' Mentality?
- The New York Times' excellent Freakonomics blog weighed in recently on how the current economic turmoil is likely to affect the mentality of young people who are coming of age in the midst of the crisis, citing research by economists Paola Giuliano and Antonio Spilimbergo. Their findings: Individuals growing...
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- Out of Site at AdAge.com.(Viewpoint)
- As seen on Freakonomics.com/blog As seen on Freakonomics.com/blog
- Research articles 2006-11-06
- The Science of Greatness, Talent, and Giftedness
- David Schenk, the author of The Immortal Game see my review, has launched a blog called The Genius in All of Us based around a new book hes writing on "How science is unveiling a rich new understanding of talent, "giftedness," and brilliance -- and the lessons we can all...
- Blog posts 2007-01-26
- Dilbert's Creator Wants You to Abuse Him...Tomorrow Night
- Scott Adams isn't just the man behind Dilbert. He's also an MBA from UC Berkeley, a jack of all trades (see the long list of "humiliating and low paying jobs" in his bio) and a clever self-promoter. In his latest blog post, he invites us all to see him in Second...
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
- SuperFreakonomics Screws Up Climate Change
- Photo via the Globe and Mail SuperFreakonomics' Super Climate FailYou can't believe everything you read--anyone who goes online in this information-addled age surely has learned that lesson by now. But there seems to be a special rule for books. People tend to give them more respect than an errant blog...
- News items 2009-10-19
- How to Succeed Like Craigslist
- Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster, founder and CEO of Craigslist respectively, know that people want to learn and emulate the secret to their success. Is it their laid-back approach to revenue growth and competition, as CNET wrote about last year? Is it a complete lack of vision and a pliability that...
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
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